Ephesians - Christ and the Church Lesson 11

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Ephesians - Christ and the ChurchLesson 11
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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• Marriage involves a great majority of church
  members, and it is a relationship in which
  participants can show to the world a walk either
  worthy or unworthy of their calling in the Lord.
• God gave the woman to her husband as a helper
  to him (Gen. 218) and gave him rule over her
  soon after their sin in Eden (Gen. 316).

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• Paul uses his discussion of mutual submission in
  human relationships as a way to expand his
  previous lessons about the sanctity of the
  spiritual bond that exists between Christ and His
  church.

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• In his double lesson Paul makes six important
  points
• The husband is head over the wife in the human
  family
• Christ is head over the church in the spiritual
  family
• The wife must submit to the rule of the husband
  in the human family in all things
• The church must submit to the rule of Christ over
  the church in all things

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• In his double lesson Paul makes six important
  points
• The reason for the church submitting to Christ
  He is its Savior
• The reason for wives submitting to husbands
  husbands are saviors of their wives

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• Another double lesson involves the submission
  of husbands to wives.
• In this way, husbands submit their own needs to
  those of other family members as he gives
  himself to them
• Similarly, Jesus gave Himself in life and in
  death to achieve what was good for His church
  (Phil. 25-8)

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• Another double lesson involves the submission
  of husbands to wives.
• Jesus totally unselfish behavior toward the
  church gives us the pattern for the unselfish
  exercise of power by husbands toward their
  families wives in particular.

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• Jesus purpose in choosing the saved was that
  they might be holy and without blame (14).
• He sanctified it.
• He cleansed it.
• He made it glorious.

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• So...
• Christ is head of the church the husband is head
  of his wife
• Christ is the Savior of His body the husband is
  the savior of his wife
• The church is subject to its Head the wife is
  subject to her head

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• So...
• Christ rules over the church by love the
  husbands rules over his wife by love
• Christ gave Himself for the good of the church
  husbands give themselves for the good of their
  wives

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• So...
• Christ provided every spiritual need of the
  church a husband provides every physical and
  emotional need of his wife
• Christ and the church illustrate the mutual
  submissiveness that should exist between every
  husband and wife.

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• The conclusion Paul draws from these truths is
  that husbands should love their wives as they
  love their own bodies.
• A simple lesson that some husbands never learn
  love directed toward a wife by her husband is
  invariably returned to him in the form of love,
  devotion, and submission from his wife.

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• Husbands are far better off in every way when
  they treat their wives as they should.
• Charles Hodge offers a good perspective on
  husband-love...
• The unity between Christ and His church is the
  primary cause for which He heaps bountiful gifts
  upon the redeemed.

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Ephesians - Christ and the Church

• Chapter Five...
• Verses 22-33 - The Church - Gods Submissive
  Servants (1)
• Husbands and Wives...
• The great mystery is likely not the mutual
  submissiveness in a marriage that Paul has been
  discussing.
• Even though our understanding of everything else
  is subordinate to our perception of Pauls
  lessons on Christ and the church, the apostle
  initially had set out in this passage to teach
  the saints at Ephesus the importance of
  submission in a successful marriage.